Last night Seattle artisan software developers Jackson Fish Market launched their latest web application, Carbon Grove. Sponsored by Microsoft as a demonstration of Silverlight, the web app allows you to sign up to receive periodic tips on how to become more carbon neutral, and every time you respond to the reminders, you cause your virtual trees to grow on the Carbon Grove site. The only downside is that it only runs on IE, so firefox users will need to launch Internet Explorer to give it a try.
From my office in the Columbia Tower I have a great view of the startup community, both literally and in the work that I do. From Pioneer Square to Fremont and beyond, there are exciting things brewing in Seattle. The following is This Is Tech's list of Seattle Startups to Watch in 2008. These emerging companies are bootstrapping some interesting stuff:
Amazon is adding fulfillment to its impressive list of web services. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, SimpleDB and Simple Storage Service are the back-end behind a large number of young lean Internet startups. While Amazon's original web service are targeted toward those building web applications, the fulfillment API, and Amazon's fulfillment service, have broad application to retail businesses generally. Outsourcing warehousing, shipping and handling take one more burden off of small businesses allowing them to focus on more important things.
Seattle locals know that small TopPot Donuts makes an amazing doughnut. If you are outside of Seattle, you might have had a TopPot doughnut at your local Starbucks. TopPot has been supplying Starbucks for some time now. Starbucks typically carries TopPot’s old fashioned (in plain and chocolate) and apple fritters. According [...]
Weblog “The Technium” is running an interesting article on what it takes for artists to be successful within the long tail of the Internet. The Technium’s premise is that it take one-thousand true fans to make a living with your art. It is well thought out and an interesting read.
Excerpt below:
1,000 True Fans: [...]
Compare Wholesale Mortgage Rates [Tools]: ”
Mortgage Professor has a great no-frills online tool for tracking the wholesale mortgage rates. Just go here, Select your geographic area, and time period to look at. Choose whether you want your data in chart or table format (I suggest table, as the chart data isn’t as up to date), [...]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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